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The years immediately either side of 1950 saw Duke Ellington particularly busy in the studio every December. Of the pieces he recorded in t...

Sunday last, I finally acquired a copy of the long out-of-print The Complete Johnny Hodges 1951-55 on Mosaic Records. When this box set cr...

Spent Saturday night auditioning Oliver Nelson’s 1970 album Black, Brown and Beautiful . I came across the album googling Duke Ellington’s ...

If music be the food of love… I can think of no better way of describing Duke Ellington’s work. Always, finishing an Ellington album, the l...